The TP 11919 (or PSTAR) is the first step in validating my flying licenses in Canada based on the US ones I have managed to accumulate over the years. It is not often that I trudge off to the Westmount Library for a quiet afternoon of studying, after all, I am 35 on the outside, but well over 60 on the inside.
When I decided to go “back to school” to activate the Canadian equivalent of my US license(s) a lot of odd things popped into my fragile brain thanks to the Canadian CAR’s. (Like FAR’s .. only they are CAR’s… make sense?)
Canada’s written tests for aircraft licenses are different in content mainly due to the fact that our constitution was written by beavers who needed to make sure all other animals had equal representation.
Mere private pilots are required to know that it is not “O.K.” to fly 1000′ feet above a heard of caribou. It is a mandatory 2000′. Obviously enforcement on this one is not easy, but at least the biology of caribou are well enough understood that we can incorporate proper separation between aircraft and beast.
Canadians spare no expense in making sure all interests are represented in all parts of the country. Even wild, unruly, and nomadic caribou.
This one, however, took the cake:
2.07 Chrome yellow and black strips painted on pylons or on the roof of a building identifies
(1) an area where explosives are in use.
(2) a fur farm.
(3) an artillery range.
(4) an open pit mine.
Yep, you guessed it. It is the fur farm. Another one that stumps us “Gringos” every time. Little do many Yanks know that when not drilling for oil, becoming pilots, or playing hockey, many of us have closet lives of quietly raising and harvesting mink furs for sale in Manhattan.By the time I get around to the next blog entry I will promise to figure out how to tie this strange trivia into something meaningful about aviation, business, and scalable business models.
Thankfully industrious folks like Robyn have sites that help the uninitiated waddle through the questions.
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